By Allen Brent

In this ebook, first released in 1978, Allen Brent units out to discover a few of the questions raised by way of theorists and philosophers concerning curriculum. He begins via investigating even if all wisdom is the manufactured from social stipulations of specific occasions or areas, or even if there's a few form of common framework implicit within the claims to wisdom which males make. He seems on the paintings of Plato, Newman, Freire and Hirt and the way, each one of them in a strikingly various approach, they've got attempted to offer us an aim foundation for curriculum decisions and the way the validity of that foundation is attacked by means of modern sociologists of data. This ebook is aimed essentially at scholars who're targeting the philosophy of schooling or curriculum theory.

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